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November 11, 2008 | Program Result
The National Committee for Quality Assurance worked to identify potential quality measures that could be incorporated into HEDIS and used to improve the prevention, assessment and management of childhood and adolescent obesity.
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
A CHIP expansion simulation finds sensitivity to higher contributions for higher income families.
May 26, 2011 | Issue Brief
Millions of children in complex family situations will require special attention to ensure access under reform.
September 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Report analyzes how CHIP expansions to include children in higher-income families affected rates of uninsurance among children in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington.
July 21, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite the importance of affordability to universal access to health insurance coverage, there is wide variability in what is considered affordable.
February 16, 2012 | Program Result
Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington were among the first to offer CHIP to children in families earning more than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Researchers at UCLA and the RAND Corp. evaluated the impact of this effort.
December 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Brief from the Urban Institute examines the characteristics of the children who remain uninsured and the prospect for enrolling them in public coverage.
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the impact of various outreach strategies on enrollment of children in California public health insurance programs.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A parent mentoring program which matches parents of minority, asthmatic children with trained parent mentors similar to themselves seems to be an inexpensive and effective way to help families manage their kids' asthma. There can actually be a net savings associated with families that extensively participate in such a program.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The authors conclude that the CHIP program and its implementation resulted in large increases in public coverage. Reductions in uninsurance were made without causing substantial employer-coverage erosion. Additionally, their analysis suggests estimates that are similar to Congressional Budget Office projections of crowd-out.